Pioneering Glasgow car park to be saved

An architecturally significant parking garage in Glasgow’s west end, The Botanic Gardens Garage, designed by D.V. Wylie in 1911 is to be transformed into a shop and gym alongside a small space for community use.

Submitted on behalf of the building’s owners, Arnold Clark, the scheme envisages continued use of a basement area for private parking but will also see the ground floor area transformed into a new retail unit with the first floor transformed into a gym.

This will entail the insertion of new stair and lift cores alongside the creation of a new doorway inside one of the existing windows.

Work to repair and refurbish the faience stonework frontage will also take place in tandem with this work, with existing window frames replaced with double glazed units.

Arnold Clark concede that more of the garages fabric is salvageable than previously believed